Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Witness Cedric R. Worth turned out to be a big, balding, 49-year-old bureaucrat in pince-nez glasses, a onetime Hollywood scripter, wartime Navy commander, and now a $10,305-a-year special assistant to the Under Secretary of the Navy. Chairman Vinson plunged right...
...from 198,000 to 245,000. The cost of paying them had jumped to more than $17 million a month and had all but broken the bank at Sacramento. Last week California newspapers and businessmen were engaged in an all-out battle to get the plan modified at a special election in November. They had begun in typical California style by hiring one Joe Robinson-the same professional signature collector who had raised the funds and gotten the signatures to put Proposition 4 over in the first place...
Until Cripps and Bevin arrived, Washington could not be sure of the British position. But it was known that the British were veering toward a practical, circumspect approach. They were inclined to ask for only a little now in the way of special help from the U.S., in the hope of more later. Specifically, they would probably propose a larger British slice of the ECA pie for Europe, which OEEC is currently fighting over (see below); a freer hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape...
Continental representatives felt and said that Britain was becoming apathetic to European solidarity; the British in turn accused the continental nations of having no understanding of Britain's special pangs and problems. Last week, another working party sat down to try for an operation less painful to Britain. Said one cynic: "Their only hope now is to find a solution that dissatisfies everybody. In that case, you can get agreement...
...picture in the cloud, Samson and Delilah with Victor Mature and Hedy Lamarr, will not be released until January, but last week Producer Cecil B. DeMille's special emissary, Actor Henry Wilcoxon, had left Hollywood to turn on the downpour in 25 major cities. With him was Pressagent Richard Condon, who planned the campaign, and luggage containing 400 pounds of promotion material and special gadgets. Wilcoxon's mission: to pour it on for six groups of "public opinion leaders" in each city-women's clubs, churches and religious groups, school officials, fashion designers, manufacturers and retailers...